Welcome to My Site

Please note this website covers my academic research only, and not my work in the Publishing Ethics and Research Integrity (PERI) team at Cambridge University Press.

I am a political scientist and visiting researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan.

Interests and Research

My primary research and teaching interests are in the political economy of finance and taxation, European Union and British politics. My subject expertise lies in financial regulation/innovation, macroeconomic governance, European integration and Brexit.

I enjoy working with both qualitative and quantitative data and methods. I have training and publishing experience in elite interviewing, historical comparative case studies (process tracing), public opinion surveys design/analysis, and quantitative text analysis. My academic research has featured in the journals West European Politics, Comparative European Politics, Review of International Organizations, Business & Politics, Political Quarterly, Government & Opposition and Political Studies Review.

I also have undergraduate and graduate teaching, supervision and module convening experience in British politics, EU politics and political economy. My teaching was awarded ‘Highly Commended’ status at the LSE, and I was nominated by students for ‘Exceptional Teaching in an Unprecedented Year’ for my approach to teaching through Covid-19. In 2024-25, I was Associate Lecturer in European Politics at the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, UCL.

Qualifications and Background

I have a BA in International Relations and Politics from the University of Sheffield (First-Class Hons.), an MA in International Political Economy from King’s College London (with Distinction), and an MRes and DPhil in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence. My doctoral dissertation was recognised as an EUI Thesis of the Month. You can read a summary here.

Between my gradudate and doctoral studies, I spent three years working for the EdTech startup Quipper in London, Southeast Asia and Mexico.

For further information, please see my CV.

Current Research and Posts

At Unimi, I am a team member on the ERC-funded project Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics: Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the EU Post-2008 (SOLID). SOLID brings together political scientists across three universities (LSE, EUI, Milan) and aims to make sense of the EU’s crisis politics and its implications for the emerging European polity.